From Fukushima to Hinkley
Dismantling the nuclear argument for a sustainable energy future
Hosted by Rebecca Harms MEP, Claude Turmes MEP, Molly Scott Cato MEP and Michel Reimon MEP from the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament
8.30
Registration
9.00 - 9.10
Welcome by Rebecca Harms and Molly Scott Cato
9.10 - 10.00
Panel 1: Economic perspectives from Japan (chair: Rebecca Harms)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Tetsunari Iida, Executive director, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies
Japan: What Fukushima has meant economically for Japan - devastating impacts, divestment from renewables
Q+A
10.00 - 11.00
Panel 2: Implication of Fukushima in Europe (chair: Claude Turmes)
- Antony Froggatt (Chatham House): Presenting the World nuclear status report
- Andreas Kraemer (founder and former director of Ecologic): The German energy transition
Q+A
11.00 - 11.30
COFFEE
11.30 - 12.30
Panel 3: The impact of Hinkley in the South West (chair: Molly Scott Cato)
- Andrew Clarke: Report on meeting South West electricity need from renewables
- Steve Thomas (Professor of Energy Policy, University of Greenwich): Nuclear is uneconomic and undermines investment in renewables
- Theo Simon: Stop Hinkley campaign
Q+A
12.30 - 13.30
LUNCH
13.30 - 14.20
Panel 4: The legal case against Hinkley (chair: Michel Reimon)
- Rudi Anschober (State Councillor of Upper Austria)
- Paul Dorfman (University College London Energy Institute): Action by competitors
Q+A
14.20 - 14.30
Final conclusions
Kathrin Glastra, Deputy Director Climate and Energy
Programme, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union
